Steam Play Proton 6.3-8 out with initial BattlEye support, CEG DRM and more games
Probably one of the more exciting releases of Proton lately, with lots of what was previously in Proton Experimental now in the main release with Proton 6.3-8 out now.
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Proton 6.3-8 gets a first Release Candidate, lots of games working on Linux
A fresh Proton release is coming up with Proton 6.3-8 now seeing a Release Candidate ready for more people to test and report issues on.
The Khronos Group officially announces the Dynamic Rendering extension for Vulkan
Recently with the Vulkan 1.2.197 specification update, a new extension popped up that has plenty of developers happy with Dynamic Rendering and now The Khronos Group has formally announced it with a more detailed explanation.
A look over what was popular on GamingOnLinux during October 2021
Here is a look back some of the most popular articles on GamingOnLinux for October 2021, an easy way to for you to keep up to date on what has happened in the past month for Linux gaming, open source and other general Linux news that we cover!
DXVK Native 1.9.2a is out for translating Direct 3D 9 / 10 / 11 to Vulkan for Linux games
DXVK Native is the fork of the original translation layer DXVK, the part of Proton that translates Direct 3D 9 / 10 / 11 to Vulkan but this is meant for Linux native builds and a new release is out now.
Half-Life 2 and the episodes get a Beta with Vulkan (DXVK) and more
Valve has put up a Beta for Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode One and Half-Life 2: Episode Two as they prepare more of their own games ready for the Steam Deck.
Helping to keep your game library tidy Lutris 0.5.9 is out supporting Epic Games Store
The Epic Games Store comes to the game manager Lutris, giving you an even better place to deal with your game library split across many different stores.
Proton Experimental expands NVIDIA DLSS support on Linux to DirectX 11 titles
Only a few days ago Proton Experimental saw an update to pull in NVIDIA DLSS support for DirectX 12 and as of today's update this has expanded to DirectX 11 titles too.
Steam Play Proton 6.3-7 is out now, Proton Experimental gets DLSS for DX12 games on Linux
Two big bits of news for Steam Play Proton today with two new versions getting released so let's take a look and see exactly what's new for the Windows compatibility layer.
A first Release Candidate for Proton 6.3-7 is up with more games working
Time for a weekend of testing for many of you? A fresh version of Steam Play Proton is on the way, with a CodeWeavers developer on GitHub announcing a Release Candidate build of Proton 6.3-7.
DXVK 1.9.2 goes out with improvements to CPU overhead for D3D9
DXVK, one of the major parts of Steam Play Proton that translates Direct 3D 9 / 10 / 11 to Vulkan has a new release out and there's plenty of nice fixes.
Lutris game manager gets a second Beta for version 0.5.9 with Epic Store support
Building upon a bunch of big new features in the first Lutris 0.5.9 Beta, a second Beta is out now with a focus on polishing up the experience that needs more testing.
A round-up of what was hot on GamingOnLinux through August 2021
Here is a look back some of the most popular articles on GamingOnLinux for August 2021, an easy way to for you to keep up to date on what has happened in the past month for Linux gaming, open source and other general Linux news that we cover!
NVIDIA DLSS for Proton + Linux with DirectX 11 / 12 lands in September
NVIDIA announced today an expansion of RTX and DLSS for plenty of Windows games, and for Linux users there's something exciting coming too: NVIDIA will hook up DLSS with DirectX 11 and 12 with Proton in September.
CodeWeavers still hiring for a 'General Wine Developer' to work on Wine and Proton
CodeWeavers announced recently they need a bit of help on finding more developers, with a spot still currently open for a 'General Wine Developer' who will work on Wine and Proton.
Steam Play Proton 6.3-6 is out now with lots of fixes and new game support
Following on from the Release Candidate testing earlier this month, Steam Play Proton 6.3-6 has rolled out to improve Windows games running on Linux.
Proton GE sees another new release pulling in lots of fixes
Proton GE, the community-built version of the Windows compatibility layer Proton has a new release available and there's quite a lot of fixes included.
Proton 6.3-6 gets a Release Candidate with new game support and fixes
Valve and CodeWeavers are working towards a fresh release of Proton with plenty of goodies including like more games working, and plenty of bug fixes too.
DXVK Native gets an official release to help Linux ports with Vulkan
For developers looking to bring their games to Linux officially, DXVK Native can be a good option to help reduce the time and complexity involved in doing so.
CodeWeavers announce CrossOver 21.0 is out now with Wine 6.0 and DXVK 1.7
CodeWeavers, the company the sponsors the Wine project and employs multiple of the developers has announced the release of their CrossOver 21.0 release.
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